City monitor · November 2026
Munich: lateral market monitor
Lawyers who joined a new firm in Munich over the last 12 months: how many, at what level, in which practices and with which firms.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 80
- Lateral moves, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +22.7%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- 42.5%
- Partner share of moves
- 36
- Firms that hired
What the data show
From November 2025 to October 2026, Sartori & Partners recorded 80 lateral moves in Munich, 0.6% of all lateral moves we tracked. On settled windows the count went from 66 to 81 (+22.7%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat.
This is a partner market: 42.5% of movers were partners, against 27.7% market-wide. A step up in title came with 21.2% of moves (market 12.9%).
- Partner42.5%
- Counsel6.2%
- Associate50.0%
36 firms hired at least one lateral in Munich in the window. The ten firms at the head of the hiring table took 58.2% of arrivals (12.9% market-wide), so hiring here is concentrated. First on the hiring table is Weil Gotshal & Manges, with arrivals in the 6-10 band.
By practice, Corporate & M&A comes first, involved in 56.2% of arrivals here (20.7% across the market). A change of city came with 26.0% of moves (market 20.5%).
With volume in Munich holding level, a hire depends on a specific reason to move, which a firm has to put in front of the candidate.
Firms by rank and band
Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.
| Rank | Firm | Moves (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weil Gotshal & Manges | 6-10 |
| 2 | Oppenhoff | 6-10 |
| 3 | Reed Smith | 6-10 |
| 4 | Latham & Watkins | 3-5 |
| 5 | Jones Day | 3-5 |
| 6 | Norton Rose Fulbright | 3-5 |
| 7 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher | 3-5 |
| Rank | Firm | Moves (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oppenhoff | 6-10 |
| 2 | Weil Gotshal & Manges | 3-5 |
| 3 | Reed Smith | 3-5 |
Related monitors and reports
Practices in Munich
- Corporate & M&A45 moves
- Private Equity29 moves
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Hiring in this market
Reports
- Munich Lateral Partner Market 2026: A Partner-Led Corporate City
Partners took 42.5% of Munich lateral moves in 12 months, well above Frankfurt, London and the market. Corporate work is involved in most of those partner moves, and private equity runs at about four times its market share (index 409).
November 11, 2026 · November 2026
Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].
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